2025 Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Region
2Colleges in the New England Region
161Urban Planning Degrees Awarded
$56,992Avg Early-Career Salary
Urban & Regional Planning is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #183 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of urban & regional planning. Combined, these schools handed out 161 degrees in urban & regional planning to qualified students.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Urban & Regional Planning Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Urban & Regional Planning in the New England Region
The schools below may not offer all types of urban planning degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in urban & regional planning needs to take a look at Westfield State University. Westfield is a small public university located in the suburb of Westfield.
Graduates who receive their degree from the urban planning program earn about $32,802 in the first couple years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).